P1: "Hey, do you have some spare change?"
P2:"No, why do you ask?"
P1: "I am poor and I require money for my essential needs."
or
P1: "Hey, did you see that poor score Jeremiah got on his test?"
P2: "Yeah, I feel bad for him."
“Seymour Hersh was a poor waif in his underwear when quoting his source, a supposed “anonymous US official”, who used the russian idiom “waif in his underwear”, which until then was not used in English.”